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WhaT have We learned from all of this? Using the
Norwegian COVID-19 tracing app experiment as
a case study, this commentary has illustrated the
ways in which public engagement on the legality
and legitimacy of digital interventions remains more
important than ever. While Smittestopp is small fry,
this account of its rise and fall is also an instructive
illustration of the affordances of the crisis-label and
the pitfalls of digital transformation in a highly digitized
society.
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Acknowledgment
I am grateful to the members of the Norwegian
Tech Community as well as to academic colleagues
for encouragement and Maja V. S. Vestad for editorial
assistance.
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